After being sidelined from August 2022 to December 2023 because of a back injury, Thunder Rosa had to give up her AEW Women’s Championship.
Now, she is just a few days away from facing Toni Storm for the AEW Women’s Championship at AEW Dynasty on April 21.
During an appearance on the KiddChris Show, Rosa noted she didn’t get back fusion surgery before her return.
“I didn’t,” she said. “I think the possibility of surgery will be probably in the future. There were two things happening at the same time. I had tears on my lower back and I had herniations. Before you can do anything, you have to wait for the tears to not be tears. After, that’s when you can do the exercises. It took me about seven to eight months to exercise properly. There are a lot of things I had to change with training anf in my life. I was a runner, I can no longer run. You have to pick and choose what you can do. I want to still be at 100% in the ring, so I had to change everything.”
H/T to Fightful for the transcription
